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Dick's Sporting Goods scores design approval for Blufffton store

Courtesy of CNNA Architects Inc.An architectural rendering of the new façade design for a Dick's Sporting Goods at Target Center

The developer for a Dick’s Sporting Goods coming to Target Center on U.S. 278 has received final design approval from a Beaufort County board for an expansion and facade change.

After clearing that base with the Southern Beaufort County Corridor Review board Jan. 11, the applicant is taking the next step needed to get county Development Review Team (DRT) approvals for building permits, county officials and a development leader said last week.

Dick’s is on the agenda for the DRT’s Feb. 8 meeting.

Target Center owner Stafford Properties Inc. of Atlanta last month entered a lease agreement with Dick’s, the United State’s largest full-line sporting goods retail, to open a store in the Target Center.

“Stafford is very pleased with the (design) board’s approval and the expediency with which we were able to obtain it. We look forward to the DRT meeting and hope to receive the necessary permits and begin construction shortly thereafter,” said Will Euhart, Stafford director of leasing and development.

The Dick’s will go in the space vacated about 2.5 years ago when Goody’s went bankrupt. The design approval for the project in the highway corridor was needed for a proposed 10,000-square-foot expansion to the building’s rear, for a new front facade design, and for landscaping and lighting, according to Judy Nash Timmer, Beaufort County development review planner.

The landscaping and lighting approvals included plans for giving the Target Center direct access to U.S. 278 at the signalized intersection now serving the Best Buy Center/Home Depot access road on the highway’s north side, she said.

The design board, which meets at the Hilton Head Island Library, gave the architectural and landscaping conceptual approval in November. The January meeting was for approval of final details.

That approval came with conditions for minor landscaping changes to be left for staff approvals, including landscaping to go at the back of the expanded building, by the foundation and where the Dumpster will be relocated. Also, some dead or dying trees in tree islands in the parking lot need to be replaced, Timmer said.

The Dick’s expansion and intersection improvement projects are on the DRT agenda for 11 a.m. Feb. 8 in the Executive Conference Room in the county Administration Building, 100 Ribaut Road, Beaufort. Approvals by the board of various county officials could be made then if everything the team wants regarding the application is submitted, according to the county zoning office.

The space sits between Target, the center’s department store anchor, and a Staples office supply store. Euart in late December said Stafford also will remodel the interior, for basically a turn-key operation, and Dick’s could open by Nov. 1, if not sooner.